Is R29.890 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. R29.890 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does R29.890 sit in the tabular list?

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29).

What cannot be coded together with R29.890?

R29.890 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.

R29.890

R29.890 — Loss of height

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

R29.890 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for loss of height. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Excludes1 — never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

osteoporosis (M80-M81)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above R29.890

Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of R29.890, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.

Written on R29.89 — Other symptoms and signs involving the musculoskeletal system

pain in limb (M79.6-)

Risk adjustment

R29.890 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

How R29.890 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to R29.890.

Loss›height
Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›loss of›height

Code history

R29.890 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.

Related codes at this level

Codes that share R29.89. If R29.890 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about R29.890

Is R29.890 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. R29.890 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does R29.890 sit in the tabular list?: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99), in the block Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29).
What cannot be coded together with R29.890?: R29.890 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.